---
title: "DHH on Omarchy and the agent OS"
description: "David Heinemeier Hansson reflects on agency, agents, and building with language."
plain: "DHH calls making things from plain English perhaps the most addictive thing he has found."
group: source
speaker: "David Heinemeier Hansson"
date: 2026-09-18
url: https://youtu.be/OSjmLh0cyVo
sources:
  - url: https://youtu.be/OSjmLh0cyVo
    title: "DHH - Omarchy the Agent OS - YouTube"
    publisher: "David Heinemeier Hansson"
    note: "Recording; used for agency and building with language and agents."
    accessed: "2026-10-01"
---

# DHH on Omarchy and the agent OS

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At 14:40, DHH calls the ability to make things from English "perhaps the most addictive substance I have yet encountered." [Watch from 14:40](https://youtu.be/OSjmLh0cyVo?t=880).

## Sources

1. [DHH - Omarchy the Agent OS - YouTube](https://youtu.be/OSjmLh0cyVo)
   David Heinemeier Hansson. Recording; used for agency and building with language and agents. Accessed 2026-10-01.

## Linked from

- Agent guide → An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/llms.txt)

- Change log → What changed in the files served here, newest first. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/log)

- Full agent guide → An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/llms-full.txt)

- Rat Stack lore | rat-stack → Short, source-grounded notes on the ideas and decisions behind rat-stack. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/lore)

- Source change history (log.md) → The generated change log as Markdown. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/log.md)